"Engaging Political Philosophy" investigates the political
philosophies of Hobbes, Rousseau, Locke, Mill, Rawls, and Marx and
reveals the scope and limits of the philosophical tradition they
helped to forge.
The principal subject of the essays on Hobbes and Rousseau is
the state and, more generally, political authority and political
obligation. The chapters on Locke and Mill focus mainly on
liberalism, and on authority's rightful limits. All of these issues
are resumed in the section on Rawls, where the main topic is
justice, but where the notion of political legitimacy developed in
Political Liberalism is also a prime concern. The chapter on Marx
addresses many of the issues raised in the earlier essays both from
the perspective of his early writings, and from the vantage-point
provided by his mature theories of the state and history.
While the essays are relatively self-contained, a cohesive
narrative about modern political philosophy emerges from them to
create both an accessible introduction and an interesting, original
interpretation of ideas that have influenced our society.
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